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Ear to the Ground 385: A Longer Local Lunch Season
Episode 385
Jeanine Bowman believes having locally produced food on her school’s menu shouldn’t be a special occasion — it should be a daily part of nourishing k…
10 months, 4 weeks ago
Ear to the Ground 384: Power Play
Episode 384
Ag antitrust expert Austin Frerick sees the current food system as a mechanism for modern robber barons to treat rural communities as mere “extractio…
11 months ago
Ear to the Ground 383: Corporate Vs. Community
Episode 383
Sonja Trom Eayrs started out writing about her own family’s fight against factory farms. She ended up telling a larger story of corporate capture of …
11 months ago
Ear to the Ground 382: No Offseason
Episode 382
LSP’s Local Democracy Challenge is a reminder that we can’t allow democracy to grow dormant between elections.
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11 months ago
Ear to the Ground 381: A Key Ingredient
Episode 381
Chris MacLeod came to Mill City hoping to source local grain while pursuing his passion for baking. When confronted with the reality of the export-dr…
11 months, 1 week ago
Ear to the Ground 380: Thinking Like a Prairie
Episode 380
Amy Rager wasn’t thrilled about moving from the North Woods to the land of grass. But three decades later, she’s an impassioned advocate for this tre…
11 months, 3 weeks ago
Ear to the Ground 379: Proclaim Your Grain
Episode 379
Gilbert Williams is a pioneer in processing local grains for local markets. His advice? Go stand in the field, put your name on the package, and tell…
11 months, 4 weeks ago
Ear to the Ground 378: Dumping the Doubts
Episode 378
Noreen Thomas got into organic crop farming almost three decades ago as a way to produce healthy food and survive economically. Today, she’s the ment…
1 year, 1 month ago
Ear to the Ground 377: Flour Power
Episode 377
When Peter and Brittany Haugen sought to diversify their western Minnesota crop farm, they realized there was little infrastructure available to supp…
1 year, 1 month ago
Ear to the Ground 376: Cross-Boundary Grazing
Episode 376
One farmer says he benefits from grazing publicly-managed wildlife habitat. But what does a natural resource professional think about bringing bovine…
1 year, 1 month ago